Van Barre's Positioning in the Forest of Aromberg

I feel like we've seen a few times this year where Van Barre is not positioned ideally before the moment where you'd expect something to pop off. So maybe that's why he prefers anticipating then going to the hill with the big guns in the first place. But strategically, this completely changed the race. The plan was get rise in the front group. Pedersen and Gannett panic. You have four riders in a group of nine. And then you can start to work over Van de Paul. Instead, what happens? The port flats. Oh, I say that flat flat retire catastrophic. They'd better flat tire for the port.